Covid-19 is continuing to spread around the world, with more than 180 million confirmed cases and 3.9 million deaths across nearly 200 countries.

The US, India and Brazil have seen the highest number of confirmed cases, followed by France, Turkey, Russia and the UK.

Very few places have been left untouched.

In the table below, countries can be reordered by deaths, death rate and total cases. In the coloured bars on the right-hand side, countries in which cases have risen to more than 10,000 per day are those with black bars on the relevant date.

Note: The map, table and animated bar chart in this page use a different source for figures for France and the UK from that used by Johns Hopkins University. US figures do not include Puerto Rico, Guam or the US Virgin Islands.

Confirmed cases have been rising steeply since the middle of last year, but the true extent of the first outbreaks in 2020 is unclear because testing was not then widely available.

The 100 millionth Covid case was recorded at the end of January - about a year after the first officially diagnosed case of the virus.

Deaths have also been rising, however official figures may not fully reflect the true number in many countries.

Data on excess deaths, a measure of how many more people are dying than would be expected based on the previous few years, may give a better indication of the actual numbers in many cases.

Several coronavirus vaccines have been approved for use, either by individual countries or groups of countries, such as the European Union and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Of the 193 countries and territories administering vaccines and publishing rollout data, 67 are high-income nations, 101 are middle-income and 25 low-income.

The map below, using figures collated by Our World in Data - a collaboration between Oxford University and an educational charity - shows the total number of doses given per 100 people, mostly first doses.

Overall, China and the US have given the most doses, with more than 1.1 billion and 322 million respectively, while India has administered 314 million so far.

But when breaking the figures down by doses per 100 people in countries with a population of at least one million, the United Arab Emirates, Israel and Bahrain top the list.

Most countries are prioritising the over-60s, health workers and people who are clinically vulnerable.

Some countries have secured more vaccine doses than their populations need, while other lower-income countries are relying on a global plan known as Covax, which is seeking to ensure everyone in the world has access to a vaccine.

Leaders of the G7 countries have pledged to supply one billion vaccine doses to poorer countries, either directly or through the Covax scheme.

With many countries now having started widespread vaccine rollouts, the number of daily cases is stable or falling in most regions.

Here's a breakdown of the situation by region:

Asia

Asia was the centre of the initial outbreak that spread from China in early 2020, but the number of cases and deaths there was initially lower than in Europe and North America.

However, the recent surge in cases in India and elsewhere is changing the picture.

In India, the official death toll is approaching 400,000, while it has recorded more than 30 million cases - second only to the US.

As the chart below shows, other countries in Asia have also seen recent spikes in cases.

Latin America

In Latin America, Brazil has recorded 18.4 million cases and more than 513,000 deaths - the world's second highest official death toll. Experts say they're concerned that the situation could worsen as winter sets in.

Peru now has the fifth highest toll in the world with more than 190,000 deaths, but the highest number of deaths by population size - nearly 600 deaths for every 100,000 people.

Colombia, Argentina and Chile have also seen recent surges in cases.

Europe

Several European countries have seen spikes in Covid cases in recent months.

But the number of daily infections has slowed in most of the worst affected countries, and the overall trend is downward.

Vaccine rollouts across the European Union have been problematic. There have been delays to deliveries and concerns over the safety of the Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccine, which a number of countries have withdrawn from use or restricted to certain age groups.

North America

The US has recorded more than 33 million cases and over 600,000 deaths - the highest figures in the world.

However, daily cases and deaths in the US have both now fallen, as they have in Canada, where the death rate is far lower than its neighbour's.

Middle East

Several countries in the Middle East have had severe outbreaks of the virus, with Iran and Iraq seeing the highest numbers of deaths.

Iran has the highest official death toll in the region and the country saw its biggest spike in cases in April - but the numbers have now fallen.

Israel has rolled out a highly successful vaccination programme, but has re-imposed a requirement for masks to be worn indoors after a recent increase in cases.

Africa

Africa has recorded more than 5.4 million cases and more than 140,000 deaths - but the true extent of the pandemic in many African countries is not known as testing rates are low.

South Africa, with more than 1.9 million cases and about 60,000 deaths, is the worst affected country on the continent, according to official figures.

Morocco has recorded over 500,000 cases and Tunisia, Ethiopia and Egypt have all seen more than 250,000 cases.

Oceania

Australia and New Zealand have been praised for their response to the pandemic, with both countries having seen comparatively few deaths.

But there is new concern in Australia where cases of the Delta variant of Covid-19 have been detected across the country.

Elsewhere in the region, Papua New Guinea saw a recent spike in infections, taking total cases there to more than 17,000.

Covid-19 was first detected in the city of Wuhan, China, in late 2019 but the outbreak spread quickly across the globe in the first months of 2020.

It was declared a global pandemic by the WHO on 11 March 2020.

A pandemic is when an infectious disease is passing easily from person to person in many parts of the world at the same time.

The data used on this page comes from a variety of sources. It includes figures collated by Johns Hopkins University, data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, national governments and health agencies, as well as UN data on populations.

When comparing figures from different countries it is important to bear in mind that not all governments are recording coronavirus cases and deaths in the same way. This makes like for like comparisons between countries difficult.

Other factors to consider include: different population sizes, the size of a country's elderly population or whether a particular country has a large amount of its people living in densely-populated areas. In addition, countries may be in different stages of the pandemic.